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The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." --American Statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Have indoor Garden...Get raided...

This is what is in store for us as the culture changes in the United States. just having the suspicion of possibility that you might have pot in the house, the stack shows up and roust the owners...Oh Snap..they got their information wrong. The patsy Judge signed off on this warrant with incomplete or fabricated erroneous information. Ain't judges supposed to help safeguard the bill of rights? These people have a lawsuit in...Usually governments have immunity from lawsuits so I am curious what will happen. I saw this on Yahoo News.

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Press/Orlin Wagner - Bob Harte stands next to his now shut down indoor
garden in the basement of his home in Leawood, Kan., Friday, March 29,
2013. Harte and his wife Adlynn, who are former CIA employees, …more

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LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — Two former CIA employees whose Kansas
home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug
sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had
bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables.

Adlynn and Robert Harte sued this week to get more information about why sheriff's deputies searched their home in the upscale Kansas City suburb of Leawood
last April 20 as part of Operation Constant Gardener — a sweep
conducted by agencies in Kansas and Missouri that netted marijuana
plants, processed marijuana, guns, growing paraphernalia and cash from
several other locations.

April 20 long has been used by marijuana enthusiasts to celebrate the illegal drug and more recently by law enforcement for raids and crackdowns. But the Hartes' attorney, Cheryl Pilate,
said she suspects the couple's 1,825-square-foot split level was
targeted because they had bought hydroponic equipment to grow a small
number of tomatoes and squash plants in their basement.

"With little or no other evidence of any illegal activity, law
enforcement officers make the assumption that shoppers at the store are
potential marijuana growers, even though the stores are most commonly
frequented by backyard gardeners who grow organically or start seedlings
indoors," the couple's lawsuit says.

The couple filed the suit this
week under the Kansas Open Records Act after Johnson County and Leawood
denied their initial records requests, with Leawood saying it had no
relevant records. The Hartes
say the public has an interest in knowing whether the sheriff's
department's participation in the raids was "based on a well-founded
belief of marijuana use and cultivation at the targeted addresses, or
whether the raids primarily served a publicity purpose."

"If this can happen to us and we
are educated and have reasonable resources, how does somebody who maybe
hasn't led a perfect life supposed to be free in this country?" Adlynn Harte said in an interview Friday.

The suit filed in Johnson County District Court said the couple and
their two children — a 7-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son — were
"shocked and frightened" when deputies armed with assault rifles and
wearing bulletproof vests pounded on the door of their home around 7:30
a.m. last April 20.
"It was just like on the cops TV shows," Robert Harte told The
Associated Press. "It was like 'Zero Dark Thirty' ready to storm the
compound."
During the sweep, the court filing said, the Hartes were told they
had been under surveillance for months, but the couple "know of no basis
for conducting such surveillance nor do they believe such surveillance
would have produced any facts supporting the issuance of a search
warrant."
Harte said he built the hydroponic garden with his son a couple of
years ago. He said they didn't use the powerful light bulbs that are
sometimes used to grow marijuana and that the family's electricity usage
didn't change dramatically. Changes in utility usage can sometimes lead
authorities to such operations.
When law enforcement arrived, the family had just six plants — three
tomato plants, one melon plant and two butternut squash plants — growing
in the basement, Harte said.
The suit also said deputies "made rude comments" and implied their
son was using marijuana. A drug-sniffing dog was brought in to help, but
deputies ultimately left after providing a receipt stating, "No items
taken."
Pilate said no one in the Harte family uses illegal drugs and no
charges were filed. The lawsuit noted Adlynn Harte, who works for a
financial planning firm, and Robert Harte, who cares for the couple's
children, each were required to pass rigorous background checks for
their previous jobs working for the CIA in Washington, D.C. Pilate said
she couldn't provide any other details about their CIA employment.
Pilate said any details gleaned from the open records suit could be used in a future federal civil rights lawsuit.
"You can't go into people's homes and conduct searches without probable cause," Pilate said.
Leawood City Administrator Scott Lambers said Friday that he couldn't
comment on pending litigation. The sheriff's office also had no
comment.
"Obviously with an ongoing lawsuit we are not able to talk about any
details of it until it's been played out in court," said Johnson County
Deputy Tom Erickson.

2 comments:

It ain't just in Kansas that they have the patsy monkeys wearing black robes and sitting on high benches, signing whatever papers are placed in front of them.

A number of years ago, a client of mine was served with an Order to Show Cause, signed by a now-retired judge (known for his affinity to ethanol), based upon a bald (and absolutely false) statement that a particular partnership agreement provided for such and such.

The New York Judge's Bench Book does state that if a contract is alleged, then there should be a copy of that contract or an explanation as to why no copy is available. Neither was in the papers submitted to the clown on the bench.

The papers were served on my client at about 8:30 PM, and I had to pull an all-nighter to draw up the answering papers and take the train out from Long Island into Brooklyn the next morning to appear before a different judge, who himself had, a few years previously, been discredited and suspended from the bench for various conflicts of interest and acts of fraud, and who, I do believe, was bribed by my client's former partner.

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